Looking for a Novel That's Oppressive from Start to Finish, One That Leaves You Breathless 求全篇很压抑,让人喘不过气的书
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Become the Big Shot's Beloved 做大佬的白月光
Two Male Leads, 1v1, Both Pure Three years later, Yu Linran found Qian Mo running a street stall. He apologized, vowed to change, and begged for forgiveness, but he could never win back Qian Mo's heart. It was already dead. Five years earlier, Qian Mo's mother had been gravely ill, and he had asked Yu Linran for money. Yu Linran refused. Only after his mother passed away did Yu Linran show up in front of him. He hated him, but what good would hating him do? It wouldn't bring his mother back. So
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Reborn as a Spirit Fox, All I Want Is to Die 重生为灵狐的我只想一死了之
[Angst] [Lovecraftian] [Obsessive] [Transmigration] [No System] [Fox Spirit Matchmaker] [Bizarre] [Cultivation] [Groveling for Forgiveness] [The protagonist suffers! The protagonist suffers! The protagonist suffers! Important things must be said three times…] [The author goes straight past the limits of decency to torture the protagonist] [If you think this sounds too much, don’t rush off. I’ll throw up first, on your behalf…] She was an orphan, with no name and no family. Starving and freezing,
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I'll Wait for You Until You're Thirty-Five (I Jumped into the River at Twenty-Eight) 我等你到三十五岁(投江28岁)
I’ll Wait for You Until You’re Thirty-Five (I was twenty-eight when I jumped into the river)
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The Dead Rise on Campus 尸起校园
No System. An ordinary person from the start. No fighting monsters and leveling up. If you like realistic portrayals of human nature in the apocalypse, come on in! Please note: this is not a brainless, lightweight novel. Human nature is portrayed realistically, and conflicts are shrouded in mystery. It follows an ordinary student from the lowest rung of society as he experiences despair during the apocalypse, searches for shelter, and gradually grows. There are no rigid moral standards here. No
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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun 二哈和他的白猫师尊
[The audiobook adaptation of the same name, starring Gu Jiangshan and Sanshi, is complete. Tune in and give it a listen!] Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning's disciple had been a mistake. His master was far too much like a cat, while he was like a silly dog wagging its tail and fawning over him. Dogs and cats can't reproduce together, and the silly dog hadn't wanted to reach out his fluffy paws toward that cat in the first place. He'd always thought dogs should be with dogs, like his senior bro
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The Moon’s Shadow 月球阴影
(Mystery and murder investigation + mutual healing + younger woman/older woman romance + devoted HE + a touch of showbiz + female-centered. Focused on women's stories, with diverse female characters and few male characters, most of whom are negative.) A sharp-tongued, naive younger girl with puppy-like energy VS a gentle, nurturing older sister “Your sister’s death wasn’t a suicide. She was murdered.” With those words from Gu Nanqiao, Ye Mingyu and Yan Xici began a long journey to find the kille
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Reborn as a Vicious Male Supporting Character: Should I Save the Villainess? 重生恶毒男配,要拯救女反派吗?
[Rebirth + School Life + One Heroine + Mutual Healing + Sweet and Angsty + Living off His Girlfriend] Before being reborn, Song Rui was indecisive and went with the flow. Yan Yifei was a girl who had fled Yanjing to live with her grandmother. One day, Yan Yifei suddenly transferred to his school. He took the initiative to greet her, then kept trying to befriend her and grow closer. Everything developed naturally. That is, until the two of them clashed at a birthday party. Song Rui had been chose
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The Many Lonelinesses of a High School Girl 女高中生的无数孤独
The Many Solitudes of a High School Girl
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My Days as a Spy at No. 76 我在76号当卧底的那些日子
[Dual Female Leads + No Romance + Mother and Daughter + Mutual Healing + Strong Female Lead + No System + No Transmigration + Happy Ending] Su Ran is a deeply undercover agent. When her superior suddenly dies and the entire underground network suffers a devastating blow, she is left like a kite with its string cut. Where can she go from here? At the first sight of Ning An, an impulse rooted deep in her very blood makes one thing certain: there will be no calm player in this game of chess. Thos
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Destroying the Evidence 毁尸灭迹
[Sickly beauty who’s afraid of dying × psychopathic murderer with a touch of a romantic streak] [Heartbreaking, tragic love, madmen, mutual destruction, dark, villains] Shang Wang came across a murderer. Beneath the heavy curtain of rain, she had just finished an IV drip at the hospital. Wandering idly, she came to a secluded corner and looked up. In the distance, in an abandoned garden, a pitch-black figure like a ghost was bent over, digging at something again and again. Suddenly, a flash o
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A General Is No Boy 将军非少年
If “I love you” is good fortune, then for her, “You’re free” is salvation. “Si Youjin, you can protect these splendid rivers and mountains, you can protect these beautiful years, but can you protect yourself?” She sat atop the city wall and gave no answer…
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A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史
For thousands of years, humanity has devised many ingenious and cruel ways to inflict pain on its own kind. This tragic yet seemingly universal trait has corroded the civilization humanity strives to achieve. Though we now seem to detest torture, for more than 3,000 years it was part of the laws of all Europe and much of the Far East. A Brief History of Human Torture explores the many forms of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It takes readers into the arenas of ancient Rome, medieval
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The Black Moonlight in the Abyss 深渊中的黑月光
[Gentle, steadfast little white flower × obsessive, lovesick madman] Su Mianmian liked a boy for five years, and was bullied for those same five years. What helped her endure those difficult days was a ray of light shining into her dark life. Only when they finally met in person did she learn that the boy she had loved for five years was the very person who had dragged her into the abyss. Seeing his demonic face, she ran. She deleted every way to contact her bully, thinking that once she made it
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Even an Abandoned Pawn Can Save the World 弃子也能【拯救】世界
In “Utopia,” a tide of data called “happiness” has already swept across the world. The boundary between truth and falsehood, the freedom to choose, the faint glimmer of a dystopia. What will happen in “New Chang'an”? “...It's time to wake up.”
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Making the Defense of Jinling, Players Charge Forward in Tears 制作金陵保卫战,玩家边哭边冲锋
My name is Lin Yan. In my previous life, I was a game-design workhorse. In this life, after transmigrating to a parallel world, I still work in game development. The difference is that I've awakened a System called “World War.” By combining this world's technology with the System, I can create breathtaking, fully immersive virtual reality games. And so, art that would shake the world was born... “The Battle of Shanghai and the Defense of Nanjing”; “One Against Seventeen: The Surprise Attack on t
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Immortal’s Hand on My Crown: I Break Through Even While Lying Down 仙人抚顶:我躺着都能突破
Does the path to immortality mean you have to sever all attachments and give up love? Does cultivation mean you have to let the whole world down? After Lin Feiyu was hit by a dump truck, a mysterious stroke of fortune chose him and sent him to the final era of the cultivation world. He didn’t need to cultivate: simply staying alive raised his realm, though the time required to break through doubled with each advancement. He thought fate had granted him a priceless opportunity, but he had no idea
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The Bizarre Art of Cultivation 怪诞修仙学
(No heroine, Eastern cosmic horror, no System, not invincible, grotesque aesthetics, not a rules-based horror, science and cultivation) The old man once said that cultivators, demons, and evil spirits turn into a pile of ash when they die. This is called tainted ash. Tainted ash contains all the energy they accumulated in life. Eat it, and you can kindle your life lamp and extend your lifespan. Leave it alone, and it will give rise to a tainted-soil resurrection! But there is one exception: bein
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Mom, I’m Afraid It’ll Hurt 妈妈,我怕疼啊
When you have the chance to make a choice, don't let yourself live with regret. If she could do it all over again, Bibi Dong would pick up the little one, kiss her gently on the forehead, and tell her she was sorry.
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Captive Paper Cranes 囚禁千纸鹤
Tearjerker, tearjerker, tearjerker!!! Important things should be said three times. If you don't like it, don't read! Lin He: “I once folded my whole heart into the wings of a paper crane, writing your name stroke by stroke, thinking that if I gathered enough longing, the wind would carry me to your side. But I forgot that you stood so high and so far away. My wings were too light to bear the weight of my love, and even my courage to approach you was slowly worn away by the wind. I could only sta
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My Lawyer Wife Cheated with Her Scholarship Student. After Divorcing Me, She Regretted It 律师妻子出轨资助生,与我离婚后,她却后悔了
My Lawyer Wife Cheated with Her Sponsored Student and Divorced Me, but Now She Regrets It
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I’d Rather Die So You Can Follow Me in Death 用死换你殉情也好
He was once the Supreme Emperor, yet he personally killed the only person he ever loved. There were no bones left at the mass grave. In the inner palace, he dreamed of her more than two thousand times over six years. His empire fell, and all its splendor came to nothing. He gave his life to atone, hoping only to reunite with her in another life. Dynasties changed and years passed. The world had long since become a different place. On a bustling street, two little children came hand in hand. The
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My Fiancée Planned to Marry Her Male Best Friend. After I Left, She Panicked 未婚妻要跟男闺蜜办婚礼,我走后,她却慌了
My Fiancée Is Marrying Her Male Best Friend. But After I Leave, She Panics
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Ultraman: Evil Tiga, Better I Betray the World Than Let It Betray Me 奥特:邪恶迪迦,宁教我负天下人
[Evil Tiga + protagonist suffers early on + no System + some details differ from the original] Xing Yun transmigrated into the world of Ultraman Tiga. There, Xing Yun met the most important person in his life. Their days were hard, but they were happy. Yet what destroyed his happiness wasn’t a ferocious monster or an evil alien. “Having lost you, I will spend the rest of my life plunged into darkness.”
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I Got a Late-Night Hotel Pickup, and the Passengers Were My Wife and Her Lover 半夜接到去酒店的代驾单,上车的竟是妻子和她的情夫
I got a designated-driver job taking someone to a hotel in the middle of the night. The passengers turned out to be my wife and her lover
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The Glass Cage 玻璃之笼
[No moral boundaries] [The wholesome sections are available as a full-cast audiobook] My older sister has a boyfriend who seems perfect. He treats her well, is good to our parents, and is good to me, too. I thought they were made for each other. Until that Christmas night, when I finally realized he was nothing but a complete bastard.
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I Request Permanent Account Deletion 我申请永久注销账号
There isn't much of a synopsis. This is simply the story of a life born on the wrong track, reset to zero... Shen Shi'an: "The world is so vast, yet when I look around, there's not a single person who loves me!" There are bonus chapters, so check out the author's notes in Chapter One! #The tags don't match the story. The author didn't choose them (breaks down)# My new work is here! Welcome to read my story. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell
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My Wife Said She Was Working Late, but I Saw Her on Her Senior's Social Media 妻子半夜出门加班,我却看见她出现在学长的朋友圈
My wife left in the middle of the night, saying she had to work overtime, but I saw her in a senior's social media post
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The Diary of the Man Who Belongs to Him 属于他的先生日记
(This is a story about the secondary couple. The main couple’s story, Pretending to Be a Couple, Becoming True Love, has a bonus ending where everyone gets a happy ending.) Mo Lie x Bai Ren [Two male leads + unrequited love + tragic ending + angst] Mo Jia x Mu Qingzhou To Mo Jia, falling for someone was a wonderful thing. But... The person he loved was a man. A man he was not allowed to love. If unrequited love was bitter, then for Mo Jia, it was something very, very sweet. What was the meaning
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My Girlfriend Called Me a Beggar on My Birthday. After I Left, I Discovered It Was All an Act 女友在生日上说我是乞丐,我离开后,却发现她是在演戏
My girlfriend called me a beggar at her birthday party. After I left, I discovered she had only been putting on an act
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Harry Potter: Hard Work Never Goes to Waste HP努力不枉然
This story has no romance pairing. The title means “trying hard so that the little I have left won't end up being completely meaningless,” not “if you try hard, it will work.” There was a little witch with rusty-red hair. She went from her shabby home to school. She kept a fat snake that was a little narrow-minded. At school, she was classmates with Snape. After graduation, she became a colleague of Lucius. She idolized Grindelwald and made newspaper clippings about him. During the final battle
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After Learning My Girlfriend No Longer Loved Me, I Decided to Give My Life for My Country 得知女友不再爱我后,我决定以身报国
When I learned my girlfriend no longer loved me, I decided to give my life for my country
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Snow on the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Twelfth Month: That Snowy Night, I Fled Hell with My Daughter in My Arms 腊月二十七的雪:那个雪夜,我抱着女儿逃离了地狱
Snow on the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Twelfth Month: That Snowy Night, I Fled Hell with My Daughter in My Arms
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When I Learned My Professor Fiancée Had Taken My Admission Letter, I Called Off the Wedding 得知当年是教授未婚妻取走录取通知后,我决定退婚了
When I learned that my professor fiancée had taken my admission letter back then, I decided to break off the engagement
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When the Dream of Marriage Ends 姻梦醒
An unhappy marriage is like a nightmare! You put up with things and make allowances in your dreams... Like being trapped in a nightmare, even waking up is difficult. The protagonists in this book have all endured the nightmares of marital troubles and hardship in real life. One day, they will come to a realization... and build brilliant lives of their own!
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After My Fiancée Went on a Trip to the Islands with Her Intern, I Decided to Let Her Go 未婚妻和实习生去海岛旅游后,我决定放手了
After my fiancée went on a trip to an island with her intern, I decided to let her go
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The Trials of Life and Death in the First Half of My Life 前半生历劫生死
At a human traffickers' hideout, the other children and I huddled together, trembling with fear as we watched two sisters from the neighboring family being bullied. Their cries, curses, and pleas for mercy rang in my ears. I still don't know where a five-year-old like me found the courage. I hurled the broken bowl in my hand at one of the thugs, smashing it against his head. "Who gave you the guts to hit me?" the bloodied man roared, then punched me so hard I went flying...
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Kill Them All. There's No Need to Act Normal 都杀了,做人没必要太正常
[Now being published; a motion comic is out. The heroine is invincible, no romance, no nation-building, plot-focused, with male characters who may die.] Guan Zhiwei is forced to transmigrate. Countless Systems bind themselves to her, promising to send her home once she completes their missions. They all turn out to be liars. Our unlucky heroine decides to take down this world. Starting with killing the male lead. As she takes out one romantic male lead after another, she leads her neighbors
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After I Reset Their Affection, My Two Childhood Friends Went Crazy 当我清空好感度后,两个青梅却疯了
After I reset their affection levels to zero, my two childhood friends went crazy
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Midnight Nightmares: I Can’t Escape My Gloomy Landlord’s Clutches 午夜梦魇,我逃不出阴郁房东的禁锢
Midnight Nightmare: I Can't Escape My Gloomy Landlord's Confinement
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What If I Can't Beat Them? Guess I'll Have to Win Them Over 打不赢怎么办?只好选择攻略了
[One heroine, lots of everyday life, no angst, a single romance] Su Bei tries to clear the game Fantasy World. After staying up all night and failing a hundred times, he finally ends this miserable experience. Not by beating the game, but by giving up. Wait! How did I transmigrate? But as Su Bei digs deeper, the truth has already changed beyond recognition… This is a redemption story spanning fifty thousand years.
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After a Thousand Simulations, I've Mastered the Escape Game 模拟一千次,我有逃生游戏速通法
[Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced
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The Netherworld Scholar Immortal 通幽小儒仙
“Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem
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Above the Abyss [Crime] 深渊之上【犯罪】
[Just started getting rated, score will rise!] [Dark + pretend siblings + physical and emotional torment + yandere + redemption] [Original title: Above the Abyss] “Brother, let's play hide-and-seek.” “Okay.” “Brother, you can't open your eyes until you've counted to a hundred!” “Okay.” An accident forced the siblings apart for sixteen years. When Shen Nanfeng infiltrated a criminal organization undercover, he discovered that the younger sister he had longed for all those years, Chi Yu, played a
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After Ten Years Haunted by a Vengeful Ghost, I Decided to Stop Waiting 被厉鬼缠身十年,我决定不等了
After Being Haunted by a Vengeful Ghost for Ten Years, I Decided to Stop Waiting
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Rules of the Strange Tales: From the Start, I Tore Up the Sacrifice Script 规则怪谈,开局撕了祭品剧本
When the fog rises, Huagang City begins to fade. Lin Qing is chosen to enter a gray, colorless urban-legend instance, where she forms a pact with Chun, the Camellia Flower Elf King. She has a Floral Codex that can unseal the Elf Kings, but each time she unseals one, it takes something from her in exchange. She helps those in the fog who have forgotten themselves remember who they are, while searching for her younger brother, who disappeared into the fog half a year ago. But the deeper she goes,
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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After I Left, All Four Heroines Went Insane 我离开后,四个女主全疯了
After I Left, All Four Heroines Went Crazy
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A Beautiful Sick Girl in the Garbage Heap 垃圾堆里的美丽病娇
I write for people with trauma and psychological disorders. All my books are trauma narratives aimed at a niche audience. If you complain that the candle at the bottom of the pit doesn’t shine as brightly as the sun, or that the plot isn’t satisfying enough and the characters aren’t impressive enough, it’s not me pushing these books on you. You picked the wrong genre. I’d like to take them down and be done with it too, but the rules are different for completed novels. Niche books aren’t affected
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My Wife Cared for Her Benefactor and His Son. I Let Her Go, and Now She’s Regretting It Like Crazy 妻子替恩人照顾父子,我选择放手后,她却悔疯了
My Wife Took Care of Her Savior and His Son. I Let Her Go, but She Was Overcome with Regret
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Snowflake Town 雪粒镇
[Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue
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